Be Better @ Turning 40

A Wonderfully Imperfect Guide to Turning 40 (and still nobody has thrown you one)

Forty arrived on a Tuesday, in the middle of something.

You booked your own party, because everyone who loves you is exactly as flat out as you are. The diary has gaps that hold nothing. A shoulder has been sore since March, a friend's marriage has quietly come apart and a small accountant in your head is totting up the roof, the car and the fees. Inside, you are still twenty-eight, and nobody mentioned any of this on the card.

Inside: the exact words for saying no when every single ask is reasonable, what to say in the first ten minutes when a mate rings about her marriage and how to name the number you are frightened of before you take it to somebody licensed.

No reinvention. No seminar. No sports car. Just what the decade actually does, and what to say when it does it.

• The hour, booked. One slot a week, in the dentist ink, held with a single sentence.
• The call, answered. Three things to say, a list of things not to and how to stay friends with both of them.
• The number, faced. Written down, said out loud and taken to the right room with five questions.

Includes a free printable Defended Hour card.

Paperback: 96 pages, 140 x 216mm, printed to order in Australia. ISBN 978-1-7649860-2-1
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Betty Better. Wonderfully imperfect on purpose.